The Great Debate: The Need For Office 365 Backup
AvePoint's John Hodges and Office365 IT Pro's Tony Redmond Debate Live!
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Duration: 1 Hour
Dux Raymond Sy
Microsoft RD and MVP, AvePoint CMOWith over 20 years of business and technology experience, Dux is the CMO of AvePoint. He has successfully driven digital transformation initiatives for commercial, educational, and public sector organizations worldwide.
A sought after trusted advisor, Dux is the author of “SharePoint for Project Management”. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP), a Microsoft Regional Director (RD), and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) who has authored whitepapers, industry articles, and delivered interactive presentations to over 10,000 people in major industry events worldwide.
John Hodges
SVP Product Strategy, AvePointJohn is the SVP of Product Strategy at AvePoint, focusing on developing compliance solutions that address modern data privacy, classification, and data protection needs for organizations worldwide. John has been actively engaged in the SharePoint community for several years, working with many Fortune 500 companies to drive sustainable adoption of Microsoft technology and optimize SharePoint’s larger purpose-built implementations. John’s insights and opinions on modern Information Technology can be found in various industry publications, as well as throughout this numerous speaking sessions in webinars and at events worldwide.
Tony Redmond
Principal, Redmond and AssociatesRedmond and Associates

Christian Buckley
Brand Alliance Director, AvePoint | Microsoft Regional Director + Office Apps & Services MVP
Christian Buckley
Brand Alliance Director, AvePoint | Microsoft Regional Director + Office Apps & Services MVPChristian is the Microsoft Go-To-Market Director at AvePoint, and both a Microsoft Regional Director (RD) and Most Valuable Professional (MVP).
An award-winning product marketer and technology evangelist, Christian's almost 30-year tech career has included Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Evangelist for several leading SharePoint ISVs, and he was part of the Microsoft team that launched the hosted SharePoint platform in Office 365.
He has worked with some of the world’s largest technology companies to build and deploy social, collaboration, and supply chain solutions, and sold his first software startup to Rational Software in 2001.
Co-author of books on both SharePoint and software configuration management (SCM), Christian is one of the most widely published names within the Microsoft ecosystem, and can be found online at www.buckleyplanet.com
Someone order the lecterns (6 feet away please), prepare the spin rooms, grab the moderator’s cue cards and roll camera.
We are giving you the debate you really want this fall! Two of the biggest experts in the Office 365 data protection space will go toe-to-toe, point-to-point, mono e mono on the issues live!
- Do you need a third-party solution to backup Office 365?
- When are native data protection solutions enough?
- What scenarios or gaps exist? Does it matter to you?
- How do you make an informed risk/ROI based decision for your organization?
- When are backup ISVs providing value versus FUD?
If you have read Tony’s recent articles on Office 365 backup claims made by one of our competitors and our response blog, you know this will be a true exchange of ideas, perspectives, and opinions.
Christian Buckley, Microsoft MVP and Regional Director, will moderate the exchange and Dux Raymond Sy will host our pre- and post-debate analysis.
No questions shall be dodged, no babies shall be kissed! Audience questions are fair game!
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